Public Policy category: 4660 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades. However, few attempts have been made to connect these concerns with the growing body of research on biases and blind spots in decision-making....
Healthcare Policy in Africa
Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
A comparative study of healthcare policy in Africa, the book explores the impact of historical institutions, multilateral organizations, and informal norms, such as, respectively, colonialism, the World Health Organization, and the Western-inspired biomedical approach to disease on health policy choices,...
The Art of Policymaking
Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The Art of Policymaking: Tools, Techniques and Processes in the Modern Executive Branch, Second Edition is a practical introduction to the specific tools, techniques, and processes used to create policy in the executive branch of the U.S. government. George E. Shambaugh, IV and Paul Weinstein, Jr....
The High Representative and EU Foreign Policy Integration
A Comparative Study of Kosovo and Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of integrated efforts in EU foreign and...
Sustainable Urban Energy Policy
Heat and the city
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent.
Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the...
Cultural Policy and Industries of Identity
Québec, Scotland, & Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations–in particular, Québec, Scotland, and Catalonia–and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities,...
Risk, Language, and Power
The Nanotechnology Environmental Policy Case
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Risk, Language, and Power explores discourse around the environmental risks of nanotechnology, making the case that the dominance in risk discourse of regulatory science is a limiting policy debate on environmental risks, and that specific initiatives should be undertaken to broaden debate not just...
Kill it to save it
An autopsy of capitalism’s triumph over democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
How have powerful Americans convinced their fellow citizens to support policies beneficial only to the wealthy? Why have so many given up on public education, safe food and safe streets, living wages – even on democracy itself? Kill it to Save it lays bare the hypocrisy of US political discourse...
Always Speaking
The Treaty of Waitangi and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
This is a collection of papers that examine the current place of the Treaty of Watangi in core public policy areas. The authors analyse the tensions and dynamics in the relationship between Maori and the Crown in their areas of expertise, detail the key challenges being faced, and provide insights...
Cyber Society, Big Data, and Evaluation
Comparative Policy Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
We are living in a cyber society. Mobile devices, social media, the Internet, crime cameras, and other diverse sources can be pulled together to form massive datasets, known as big data, which make it possible to learn things we could not begin to comprehend otherwise. While private companies are...
Asylum Policy, Boat People and Political Discourse
Boats, Votes and Asylum in Australia and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This book compares the policies of Australia and Italy towards boat people who have arrived in the two countries since the early 1990s. While the regular and varied inflow of immigrants arriving at national airports, ferry terminals and train stations is seldom witnessed by the public, the arrival...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
South Korea is renowned as one of the success stories of fast economic development. The Korean developmental state was a highly efficient, meritocratic, and fully monopolized coercive force. These resources were skilfully leveraged to shape the direction of private sector actors towards strategic...
Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century
Disciplinary Measures, Transformative Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative of evidence-based policy-making, arguing instead that evaluation research is used to discipline and control. At the same time, drawing on the work...
Disaster Resiliency
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Natural disasters in recent years have brought the study of disaster resiliency to the forefront. The importance of community preparedness and sustainability has been underscored by such calamities as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese tsunami in 2011. Natural disasters will inevitably continue...